All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. - Alberto Giacometti
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
- Alberto Giacometti
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express. - Alberto Giacometti
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way i… - Alberto Giacometti
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way i…
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. - Alberto Giacometti
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
The form is always the measure of the obsession. - Alberto Giacometti
The form is always the measure of the obsession.
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary… - Alberto Giacometti
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary…
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. - Alberto Giacometti
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. - Alberto Giacometti
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. - Alberto Giacometti
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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